"The moment when I received my money, I was with my spouse. We felt so happy, jumped up and down, and we immediately went to confirm with the Mpesa agent if it's true the money was in my account. This was the first time in my life receiving such an amount of money."

"The biggest difference in my life is that now I no longer buy milk for use.I bought my own cow and happy milking my own cow."

"I felt joyous ,the whole family was happy for me"

"Plastering my house"

"I have been staying with my parents in law but now I have constructed my own house in our own land making us independent. "

"I felt like dying of happiness! The message came at about 5 a.m. "

"In the next six month l expect to have started cattle farming."

"Receiving this money means liberation from poverty. I am a widower with school going children that need fees, clothing and food. I would like to spend the transfer on paying school fees and invest the remaining part in agriculture."

"I expect my life to change in the next six months in that, I will have started a business and from the profits, I will be able to pay my childrens fees."

"I felt very happy upon receiving the transfer because I a plan of building a house."